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iTunes to drop copy protection

Apple introduces new pricing strategy, removes DRM from most songs


Learn from U.S., 911 expert says

U.S. didn't get serious about upgrading phone system until a series of preventable deaths


Twitter hackers target Obama, Spears

Micro-blogging site's high-profile accounts used to post profane messages and spam


Technology

New Internet-ready TVs put heat on cable firms

The Internet has proven it can handle television, but is TV prepared to handle the web?


Rogers hurt by falling iPhone sales

Adds almost 200,000 new subscribers, up from 183,000 last year, but iPhone sales rise at half the rate of the previous quarter

The Program

Apps we love

Wes Fok

The granddaddy of desktop MP3 players, an easy-to-use video converter and a souped-up version OS X's Finder


geekwatch

Mathew Ingram

Today's hot spot: Danny Williams

Opinion on the Newfoundland premier's move to seize Abitibi's assets is running strongly in favour, judging by our reader comments


controllerfreak

Chad Sapieha

Firebird: The hottest PC gaming news at CES?

The new gaming desktop unveiled by HP/Voodoo at this year's show is small, sleek, and surprisingly inexpensive.


Personal Tech

FALLOUT

The year in gaming

The Globe's console critic on what was notable in 2008

 

 
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TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 

Wikipedia pulls in flood of cash from users

Foundation raises $5.5-million after appeal for donations

Electronics spending zapped by economy, likely to ‘get worse'

Poll shows wary consumers planning to spend less on iPods, TVs; one in three say they intend to downgrade cellphone plans

Where everybody knows your teenaged musings

The first generation that grew up with the Web finds that having adolescent dramas posted online is not cool, especially in a job hunt

Christmas 2.0: Tracking St. Nick

Tracking St. Nick takes only a click

Torontoist website gets reprieve

Editor of Hogtown blog says forgoing salary a Band-Aid solution

Laptop shipments surpass desktops

Shipments of notebook PCs surged nearly 40 per cent to 38.6 million units, while desktop shipments fell 1.3 per cent to 38.5 million

NY Times Co. sued over copyright

GateHouse Media claims community websites use online material without permission

Dutch company punches holes in font to save ink

Company is inviting developers to improve the Ecofont further under a free, open-source model

Toronto tops the Twittersphere

City has Canada's largest collection of Twitter users, and ranks eighth globally, report says

Building a better (virtual) mousetrap

Facebook app MouseHunt is pulling in about $120,000 a month


TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS 

RIM extends Certicom takeover deadline

Date is pushed back to allow Supreme Court to rule on Certicom's objections to hostile takeover

New York Times sees dip in online revenue

Total November advertising revenue drops 20.9 per cent

RIM says it will fight Certicom effort to block bid

Certicom says RIM's hostile takeover offer of $66-million undervalues company

Warner Music videos taken off YouTube

Licensing dispute leads to collapse in negotiations

EA to shutter Black Box studio

Vancouver closure latest blow to Canada's gaming industry

Panasonic to buy Sanyo in $9-billion deal

Goldman agrees top sell stake in Sanyo after much negotiating

Oracle profit flat on stronger dollar

Business software maker posts $1.3-billion in second-quarter earnings

Cable companies delay confusing digital switch

Companies are facing regulatory scrutiny over their practice of switching analog channels to digital

RIM's new woe: keeping up with demand

New devices popular, but margins lower

Motorola to freeze pension plans

Co-chief executives will take pay cuts, other employees face salary freeze


PERSONAL TECH 

Fixing older gadgets often more expensive than buying new one

Inconvenience and costs of repair has morphed the masses into a disposable gadget society

Circuits: Updating automatically

And movie power for a long haul

Free calls to the U.S. from almost anywhere

CallingAmerica.com is a new ad-supported Web service

David Pogue: The best digital cameras for under $300

No bells, no whistles: quality is what counts

Geek Notes: Earbuds that can feel as good as they sound

When it comes to headphones, one size does not fit all

Circuits: Maintaining a healthy drive

Plus, social network diseases and Windows toys

Meltdown misses Nintendo

Decision to boost output, divert shipments to meet demand for Wii system pays off

Over half of adults play video games: survey

Younger adults more likely to be gamers; number similar across genders

The man behind the casual gaming boom

Nintendo's Satoru Iwata marketed the Wii as a bridge between gamers and non-gamers – and outsold rivals in the process

David Pogue: A nice, simple phone camera

Motorola Motozine ZN5 phone puts pictures and calls on equal footing


 

Robo Santa

An interview with the new era of shopping mall Saint Nicholas

Online anonymity

Cyberbullying verdict turns rule-breakers into criminals

'Space exploration FTW'

Interview with the brain behind @MarsPhoenix, The Mars lander's twitter personality, which has become something of an online celebrity

Nerd humour hits it big

Web comic xkcd manages is to be humane - and sometimes even touching

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